Dr. Matt Finley

Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering | Assistant Research Scientist @physicsastron | Developing signal processing & ML techniques to enhance space physics

[TRACERS Mission @TRACERSMission]

George Hospodarsky, @uiowa @physicsastron MSC Instrument Lead
Matt Finley - @NASAGoddard , Magnetic Interference Mitigation Lead

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Spent some time cleaning up my late-60s Celestron C8 this weekend with hopes to try out some astrophotography this winter. Stacked a few short passes of Saturn through the eyepiece with my cell phone before dragging out my big cameras for more prime focus photography!

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Newest paper just dropped! We discuss how a lightweight, unsupervised machine learning tool (typically not synonymous) can be used to detect geophysical events from a variety of time-series spacecraft observations, with an emphasis on the potential for onboard application.

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Drove all the way to NASA Wallops for a scrapple breakfast burrito (and the Heliophysics Tech Symposium) 🚀

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@erisahasani3 My experience as a postdoc (currently in my second, at a different institution) has been that I was given a laptop for use at work, with whatever reasonable specs I wanted. As a graduate student, though, that definitely was not the case.

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Update on the terminator squad... they look pretty good if you squint 😆

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Spending a lazy Sunday watching the 3 Body Problem and painting some of my @warhammer 40k Ultramarines!

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@belltyler I'm considering reading them, my dad highly recommends them! But currently just show-only as well 😅

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Spending a lazy Sunday watching the 3 Body Problem and painting some of my @warhammer 40k Ultramarines!

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Newest paper just dropped at Geoscientific Instrumentation! We present a physically-synthesized dataset that can help to validate the performance of magnetic interference mitigation algorithms for spaceflight magnetometers.

https://t.co/KHBOhtlDzi

[Austin Keck @KeckAusome]

we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because that shit goes hard

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Donuts should be mandatory for meetings that happen before 9a 🍩

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Went backpacking, did a bit over 1% of the Appalachian Trail for my fiancé's birthday!

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This is remarkably pleasing to me.

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Second time in a row that my flight from CID -> DCA was canceled, this time due to mechanical issues. Only cut ~14hr off my weekend on this round, which is better than last time!

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@KyleMorgenstein Bose QCE Mk2 is by far the nicest noise canceling earbuds I've ever used. Great for planes, subways, calls (even Zoom/Teams with work computers), etc. Since they just released the QCE Ultras, the QCE Mk2 is probably on sale!

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Why would anyone want to leave this?

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@valeriadepaiva What's the keyboard and mouse combo?

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@Natalie_P10 Quit eating rocks, dude

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Before and after of the Saturday fire pit build

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@KyleMorgenstein @yupes_ Are you ever concerned that the money will, instead of helping, enable potential negative behaviors? Although I try to give occasionally to the unhomed, this question always makes me uneasy.